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Tag: Windows 10

Not long ago my wife Kit had some issues with her microphone not working with Discord. Kit plays World of Warcraft and Discord is the “go to” chat program for the popular MMO, as well as other games. As with most technical issues, the first part is isolating […]

Recently I started running into some issues on my main gaming PC (affectionately called “Godzilla” due to its size) which were starting to really annoy me. Apps weren’t loading correctly and performance was being hit hard due to rogue services chewing up CPU. Most people get into this […]

Microsoft’s Surface brand for years consisted solely of the tablet / notebook hybrid machines of which I still own the original Pro version in all its chunky glory. During that time I’ve become familiar with later iterations of the hardware, with my current work machine being a Surface […]

Lots of news arrived today for fans of Halo with much of it good for those who’re also picking themselves up a shiny new Xbox One X in the coming months. Keeping it brief: Halo 5 Guardians‘ 4K update is being handled by the same team that produced […]

When copying files across PCs on a network sometimes it is easier to set up a shared folder on your Windows machine and copy it across that way instead of plugging in USB drives etc. That works well enough but if you forget to turn it off and […]

For the last few years I’ve posted occasionally about emulation on Microsoft’s hardware and operating systems as both introduced some significant changes to how emulation apps could run and how they could branch out to form factors that were previously unseen in Windows machines. Even in that space […]

Though it had been talked about for quite some time in the prior months, it was a surprise to find when Phantom Dust launched this week it was also going to be free. But seeing what we’ve got, it was likely a smart move by Microsoft to do […]

Several improvements have been made to enhance the couch gaming experience on the PC that I think are worth mentioning. With the latest Windows 10 updates it seems now that the Xbox One controller can be added via standard Bluetooth now. Instructions on how to do this are […]

For those running Windows 10 (likely a few of you out there) there is a major update that’s beginning to be pushed out to owners starting from today. Called the “Creators Update” it continues Microsoft’s move to bring its platforms closer together, a neat new 3D art tool […]

Fallout Shelter was a big surprise coming from Bethesda back in E3 of 2015 and a fun accompaniment to the hype they were building for the soon to arrive Fallout 4. The free to play iOS and Android game was a fun time waster that certainly kept me […]